A centurion carried a staff made of a vine-branch, for disciplinary purposes.
An urgent demand arose that the customary fees to centurions for granting furlough should be abolished, for they constituted a sort of annual tax upon the common soldier.
The cohorts chose each their centurions: two senators were placed at the head of each cohort.
The other centurions marched each at the head of his company, glittering with their armour and decorations.
When he was centurion, Trajan had summoned him to enter his presence before the prefects, whereupon he said: "It is a shame for you, Caesar, to be talking with a centurion, while the prefects stand outside."
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But it is good to have him in thecenturionclub.
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They believed they were playing a role as centurions in our society against all the dark forces seeking to subvert our society.
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Centuriontanks were on their way.
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Auxiliary centurions risen from the ranks were thus probably less predominant than in the legions.
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If so, the "centenarius" may have been the equivalent of acenturionin the old-style units.
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Thecenturionthen offered, to assuage his shame, to ransom her back to her relatives.
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When therefore those soldiers saw it, they awakened thecenturionand the elders, for they too were close by keeping guard.
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While acenturionled his unit from the front in battle, his "optio" would bring up the rear.
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It would take a ranker a median of 16 years just to reachcenturion-rank and probably the same again to reach "primus pilus".
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Within each cohort, each of its six "centuriae", and thus of its commandingcenturion, was likewise ranked.
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As they mostly rose from the ranks, centurions are compared to modern sergeants-major, the most senior officers without a commission.
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The meliks had their recruit armies headed by "centurions," their own castles and fortresses.
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Peering over the left shoulder of thecenturionis a small face.
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He has a few centurions under him, but he sees them as distractions and rivals rather than as students.
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Centurionis the next-highest rank and probably the most common.
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